Conférence | Isabelle Fontaine. Outils et stratégies Depuis le début de l’humanité, il n’existe qu’une seule constante : le changement. Le changement crée toutes sortes de réactions émotionnelles chez les gens. Il n’est d’ailleurs pas rare d’entendre parler de «résistance au changement». Sauf qu’il faut savoir que ce n’est pas au changement que les gens résistent, mais bien à l’émotion négative qu’il provoque. Si je vous annonçais sur-le-champ que vous avez gagné 10 millions de dollars! Plus encore, il est capital de savoir que nous avons des « patterns émotionnels » qui nous rendent très prévisibles face aux difficultés. Connaissez-vous vos leviers émotionnels positifs?
Dr. Rick Hanson | Author of Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom. How to Trick Your Brain for Happiness, by Rick Hanson. There’s this great line by Ani Tenzin Palmo, an English woman who spent 12 years in a cave in Tibet: “We do not know what a thought is, yet we’re thinking them all the time.” gobyg It’s true. The amount of knowledge we have about the brain has doubled in the last 20 years. Yet there’s still a lot we don’t know. In recent years, though, we have started to better understand the neural bases of states like happiness, gratitude, resilience, love, compassion, and so forth.
And better understanding them means we can skillfully stimulate the neural substrates of those states—which, in turn, means we can strengthen them. Ultimately, what this can mean is that with proper practice, we can increasingly trick our neural machinery to cultivate positive states of mind. But in order to understand how, you need to understand three important facts about the brain. Fact one: As the brain changes, the mind changes, for better or worse. So we can see that as the brain changes, the mind changes. 1. 2. 3. Print. News de l'Association pour le Développement de la Mindfulness. 9 Simple Steps to Improve Your Health, by Sven Eberlein. Ask a centenarian the secret ingredients to a long and healthy life and you aren’t likely to hear “doctors, drugs, and fad diets.” We all know that there’s more to our overall well-being than treating symptoms or the occasional replacement of a part.
The good news is that scientists in various fields are discovering ever more ways we can keep ourselves healthy without expensive medication and complicated workout regimens. Here are nine simple, scientifically proven—and sometimes surprising—ways to empower yourself to make the right choices for your body and health. 1. “Laughter might be one of the only things in life that can be done outside of moderation and still reap the benefits,” muses Dr.
STUDY: “Inverse association between sense of humor and coronary heart disease” 2. Digging the old paint brush or the dusty guitar out of the closet is always a good idea. STUDY: “The Creativity and Aging Study” 3. STUDY: “Work-Based Predictors of Mortality” 4. 5. STUDY: “You Are What You Eat” 6. 7.